Called the Kinetic (because of the way users are supposed to interact with it) the device responds to every bend, twist and contortion in the form of navigating throught UI. Of course, this idea isn't properly baked yet, as the demo unit is simply a rather nice AMOLED display and the plastic casing (no phone functionality or capacitive touch on the screen); but it shows for an extremely pleasing user experience, and a bright future for innovation at Nokia.

Zooming in and out of images is done by simply bending the phone's sides back and bringing the middle towards you for the former, and doing the opposite for the latter. A twisting maneuvre controls scrolling through selections and songs and selection is simply a case of doing the same action as zooming in. It's really weird to describe, and something that does sound rather unpleasant on first read. But it's an actual realisation of another form of phone interaction that has the absolute ease that came with the introduction of the capacitive touchscreen. It took only a few seconds to adapt to, and it has all the user satisfaction through feeling in direct control you could ever want. I mean bend-to-zoom isn't that far away from pinch-to-zoom in terms of intuitiveness (infact we thought it was a couple steps ahead in terms of human fluidity).

Nokia Lumia 925 Announced

Nokia have announced the Lumia 925, their latest flagship Windows Phone 8 smartphone, at today's event in London.

Following all previous rumours, and yesterday's leaked images, the Finnish smartphone maker has finally taken the official wraps off the phone. It's quite similar in design cues to the previous models in the Lumia line, but it has a twist: it's made from aluminium. The rear of the device is still made from polycarbonate, and the front is a pane of glass; but the aluminium surround marks a new shift for Nokia's material-centric design.

Nokia Lumia line announced + specs

It's basically an N9 altered for Windows phone 7. Nokia have just announced the Lumia 800 and 710 at their Nokia World 2011 keynote, representing their first device on Microsoft's platform.

If there's one thing we can take away from this, it's that Nokia still make (arguably) the best phone hardware on the market. You've probably already seen the N9 on the high street; but without the cartoon OS that is Meego and the Metro UI bringing some grace to the display instead, it manages to accentuate just how beautiful the hardware truly is.

Nokia Humanform concept takes on an odd shape

So another Nokia concept has emerged from the pits of the experimental labs, this time taking the Kinetic Device from Nokia World and taking it in a whole different, teardrop shaped direction, with some Wii controls for extra effect.

Samsung releases concept video for flexible AMOLED 'mobile display'

So after Nokia took a stab at the flexible display, Samsung had to throw it's hat into the ring after dancing with the technology for quite a while, by introducing a rather curious conceptualism in the form of the Samsung Mobile Display.